As you can see, in Wonderland we like to play with our food. Chess is much harder when people keep eating parts of the board!

Perhaps a cupcake? No? Ah, I know what you really want…

You want a slice of cake! But Wonderland is no ordinary place, you know, and this is no ordinary cake…

It’s a chessboard cake! Only appropriate on this side of the looking glass, you know.

Thank you for coming to my tea party! There will be some behind-the-scenes details and tutorials coming soon! In the meantime you can find more tea parties to attend by checking out the blogroll at A Fanciful Twist.

Special thanks to my Papa and my sister Melody, who helped fight the odds to make these pictures happen! Papa made me a custom tray for my chessboard and put the legs back on my table, and Melody helped carry everything and stepped in for the role of Young Lady in White Dress. ❤!

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§ 125 Responses to We’re All Mad Here: A Tea Party

I’m thoroughly impressed by both the amount of effort you must have put into this, as well as — of course! — by the lovely result. Love the pb&j ‘tarts’ and the chessboard cake particularly, and looking forward to the behind-the-scenes post coming up.

I love all the treats….mmmm!!!!! The chess sandwiches, the checkered cake, the eat me cupcakes! Oh what a sight…my tummy aches from the eyecandy! Thanks for the tea! Hop on over to mine for a cup or 2?!!

Thank you for inviting me in, I adore the checkerboard cake the most…or perhaps the sandwiches….no my sweet tooth says the cake! A lovely party indeed. Now let me invite you over to my corner of the world and I will brew you some refreshment!
Kiss Noises Lindahttp://lillycottage.typepad.com/lilly_cottage_a_shop_of_o/

I love all the treats….mmmm!!!!! The chess sandwiches, the checkered cake, the eat me cupcakes! Oh what a sight…my tummy aches from the eyecandy! Thanks for the tea! Hop on over to mine for a cup or 2?!!

You’re my very first stop on the Mad Tea Party Train🙂
I love the checkered cake, that must have taken a few minutes to put together?! Your party looks lovely, and I might steal your playing-card decor sometime in the future🙂

Thank you very much! I’m glad you could visit🙂
The checkered cake did take a few minutes–and it made a big mess! But the dramatic effect is totally worth it, I think (as long as I only do it every once in a while, for very very special events like this one!). Hopefully I’ll put together a tutorial for both the cake and the playing card streamers soon!

Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it🙂 I think it would be awesome if someone made up a new version of chess, with rules that involve eating the pieces you claim and then working around the empty bits of board…
Thanks for visiting!

Oh wow! this is wonderful…wonderfully MAD! I love the heart tartes, the checker board cake and most of all the sunshine! My party, unfortunately, was hijacked by rain all week so it was moved inside and scaled down, lol.

Thank you so much! I have to tell you, though, that I completely sympathise with your weather woes–it LOOKS beautiful in the pictures, but ssshh it’s an illusion! It was actually brutally hot and very, very windy, and lanterns kept blowing away and the card streamer kept flipping to the wrong side of the fence, and as soon as we took the food out to take pictures an army of insects arrived and were EVERYWHERE!

I only had about fifteen minutes before we gave up and moved everything back inside! But at least we tried, and we have the pictures to remember it by😉

Hello! Such a great set-up! Love the deck of cards garland, and the yummy treats and clever checkerboards! How sweet of you to acknowledge the special help you got from your family. Makes me think of times when my own family helped me get through a special event.

Thank you so much! I’m very glad you enjoyed it❤ I couldn't do half the things I attempt without help from my family–they're the best! I mentioned in passing that I wished we had a larger square tray, so that I could make a full chessboard, and my dad disappeared into the garage and returned a few hours later with a beautiful, elegant tray just for me! And my sister did a huge amount of grunt work AND posed for pictures–thankfully my family accepts payment in cake!

Thank you so much! I’m so glad you could visit🙂 I’d love to see your version of the cupcake flags! (and I’ll tell you that I used ordinary white glue, which was a little tedious because I had to hold each flag for a few moments until the glue became tacky enough for the paper not to unfold–it occured to me later that double stick tape might have worked better and been easier to use! If you try it you must let me know what works best!)

WONDERFUL and CLEVER!!! I think this is the best post so far!!
I am totally loving your party, and all of it’s creative goodness!
Thanks to your support team also.
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Thank you so much! I’m very glad that you could come to my party and that you enjoyed it so much❤

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OH MY GOODNESSSSSssssssssss! That was wonderful on all accounts. Every nook and cranny was marvelous, and that chessboard cake, Amazing! Your pb&j’s jaw dropped me. How will you all ever eat all of those? hahaha! They are Mister Lovee’s faves😉

You have a magical spot in Wonderland. Thank you for sharing it, truly!